Cetus

Cetus, the whale or the sea monster, is the fabled creature sent by
Neptune to devour Andromeda.

Cetus was turned to stone when Perseus showed the monster the head of
Medusa. Pliney and Solinus wrote that the monsters bones were taken to Rome
by Scaurus, the skeleton measured forty feet in length and the vertebrae
were six feet in circumference. Cetus actually occurs in writing long before
the Greeks, and some debate has insued whether the sea monster was actually
Draco, Hydra or Serpens. Cetus is drawn sometimes swimming in the river
Eridanus, but is more usually drawn resting on the banks of the river with
its forepaws dipping into the river.

Cetus is a large constellation, occupying 50 degrees in length and 20
degrees in width of the sky, yet it has no stars brighter than 2nd magnitude,
and only one of 2nd magnitude.

This galaxy is unique and peculiar because of several reasons. First
of all, its spectrum shows peculiar features in the form of broad emission
lines, indicating that giant gas clouds are rapidly moving out of this galaxy's
core, at several 100 km/sec.